I’m in NZ this week following the Targa NZ event Tweeting, Facebooking and videoing all that happens.

This footage however, blew me away. Wait for it!

Aside from the awesome victory the team enjoyed thanks to some collective hard work, the highlight for me this weekend gone was meeting the family and friends of the late Daniel Morris.
Daniel was a local lad who was killed in an industrial accident back in March. Mad keen HRT fan, he’d met GT in ’09 and asked the 2007 V8 Supercar champion to sign his car’s air intake.
I was asked to create a tribute video and decided it would work best as a bookend to our weekend.
Here it is- it’s the last few minutes.

HRT TV Sunday Townsville from HRT TV on Vimeo.

Gentleman racer, gentle soul and all round nice guy Paul McMenamin was interviewed by good mate Dieter Kahsnitz at one of my media training workshops in February 2010.

Last Saturday morning, Paul was killed after a race crash at Eastern Creek.

I decided to publish this practice interview with Paul as Dieter took a few tangents and I think we get some insightful moments.

Race in Peace Paul.

Shawn Giles taking pillion rides at ASBK Eastern Creek 2009.

*Note: This is a post I have been meaning to write for some time. Finally- here it is!

Since departing the Australian Superbike series in 2009, I have watched the series with a great deal of interest. The racing has been by-and-large fantastic and certainly the top five riders have shown they are world class and put on a worthy show in the company of WSBK, MotoGP and the V8 Supercars.

Where possible, I have helped out a number of riders and people involved in the series- from media training, to PR, advice on social media, disaster management and more. For this I have not been paid a cent. (more…)